Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut. H. H. Elliott. 2nd. Bn. Royal Sussex Regt.) unit officially corrected, good very fine £160-£200

Herbert Henry Elliott was born on 30 December 1869, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment on 26 April 1893, having previously served in the Militia. He was promoted Lieutenant on 29 May 1895, and served on attachment to the Gordon Highlanders on the North West Frontier of India 1897-98, in the operations in the Bara Valley, 7-14 December 1897, and in the Bazar Valley, 25-30 December 1897. Rejoining the Royal Sussex Regiment, he was promoted Captain on 12 March 1900.

Elliott transferred to the Indian Army on 25 November 1904, and was posted to the 74th Punjabis, before transferring to the Military Farms Department in India on 10 June 1906. He was promoted Major on 26 April 1911, and Lieutenant-Colonel on 26 April 1919, and retired on 27 April 1921. He died in Herefordshire on 13 December 1934.

Sold with copied medal roll extracts, which shows the recipient on the roll for both the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders, and the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment (which no doubt accounts for the fact that the unit is officially corrected on the medal); a photographic image of the officers of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, taken at Sialkot in January 1901, featuring the recipient; and copied research.